Quotes About Present

If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you're pissing on the present.

Life is a present but you must open it.

The clock tells you everything and keeps you busy enough to forget that there could be another way of living your life.

Life is not a dress rehearsal'. There were no rewrites, no retakes,

It is not that I dwell on the past. But the past shapes the way we are in the present and the way we will become what we are destined to become. It is only because I have finally understood the past, accepted it, embraced it, that I can fully live in the moment. And hardly a moment goes by when I don't think about Emmett, and the lessons a son can teach a mother.

Glauben empfangen wir von Gott immer nur so viel, wie wir für den gegenwärtigen Tag gerade brauchen. Der Glaube ist das tägliche Brot, das Gott uns gibt.

The future, as always, felt too abstract to worry about, too nebulous, too otherworldly. What mattered was the here and now.

I'm just like a dot separating two sentences swinging between the past and present of my life

No creo en eso de vivir el momento, Molina, nadie vive el momento.

Given the fleeting nature of the moment and the least event, the most important thing is to anticipate being able to see it again in order to believe it, to anticipate the absence that already looms, the shadow cast by an elusive present. This is the opposite of what is sometimes called the work of grieving, which tends to allay the forgetting. It is not a question of admitting that the other is no longer there but of assuring oneself of having been there, in person.

La incomprensión del presente nace fatalmente de la ignorancia del pasado

it is impossible for our life to be put on hold, for whatever is happening in the moment is our life.

The important thing is to make a decision," he said. "Make what decision?" "One that will enable you to live in the present instead of constantly wondering what the future will be like.

every moment is forever

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Every day counts.

Ce qui est important, c'est de prendre une décision, affirma-t-il. - Quelle décision ? - Celle qui vous permettra de vivre au présent au lieu de vous demander de quoi sera constitué l'avenir.

An immediate threat consists of what is actually happening not what you're afraid might occur.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Warum es den Menschen so schwer fällt, glücklich zu sein? Weil sie die Vergangenheit besser sehen als sie war, die Gegenwart schlechter als sie ist und die Zukunft rosiger als sie sein wird.

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Love...., ever unsatisfied, lives always in the moment that is about to come.

I was not unhappy, except one day at a time.

No sooner does an approaching hour become the present for us than it sheds all its charms, only to regain them, it is true, on the roads of memory, when we have left that hour far behind us, and so long as our soul is vast enough to disclose deep perspectives.